Samuel S. Sumner

Samuel Storrow Sumner (16 February 1842-26 July 1937) was a US Army Major-General who fought in the American Civil War, the Plains Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Philippine-American War.

Biography
Samuel Storrow Sumner was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1842, the son of US Army general Edwin V. Sumner and the brother of Edwin Vose Sumner Jr.. He joined the Union Army cavalry in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War, and he fought at the Battle of Fair Oaks and the Battle of Antietam. He went on to serve in the Plains Indian Wars before becoming a cavalry colonel, and he became a Brigadier-General during the Spanish-American War. He took command of Joseph Wheeler's division after he fell ill following the Battle of Las Guasimas, and he later fought at the Siege of Santiago. Sumner went on to lead a brigade in China during the Boxer Rebellion and commanded a military district in southern Luzon, Philippines during the Philippine-American War. He retired in 1906 and died in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1937.